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To put aside enough money to get himself through art school ( his father having refused to fund it ), Stanshall spent a year in the merchant navy, where he made a very bad waiter, but a great teller of tall tales.
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He does not know whether to look up or look aside, to put his hands in his pockets or to clench them at his side, to cross the street, or to continue on the same side.
If Palfrey ever had any doubts about the wickedness of slavery, they were put aside after he received an inventory of the slave property he had inherited.
The Senate put other business aside as it moved with unaccustomed speed and unanimity to pass -- 85 to 0 -- the largest peacetime defense budget in U.S. history.
This is well evidenced by the Quietist doctrines carried over in Zen: the idea of the inward turning of thought, the enjoinder to put aside desires and perturbations so that a return to purity, peace, and stillness -- a union with the Infinite, with the Tao -- could be effected.
The conductor's preoccupation with the business of starting and stopping caused occasional raggedness, as with the first orchestra entrance in the Fourth Piano Concerto, but when he put his deliberations and obsequies aside and let the music move as designed, it did so with plenty of spring.
Changing his clothes, he put on his dark-blue flannel suit, and laid away the gray jacket with the feeling that he might be putting it aside for good.
I put aside my empty cup.
Again, it was not enough to merely ask or urge his audiences to put aside their blood loyalties and ethnic differences, and embrace the equality of all Muslims under the Sacred Law, it was necessary to make them do so.
The President said in an interview that he has a good relation with neighbours and fellow CEMAC countries, " put aside the incident with Sudan when the border had to be closed since militia entered C. A. R.
Chapter 26, the final chapter of the Dhammapada, states, " Him I call a brahmin who has put aside weapons and renounced violence toward all creatures.
Proposals for reformation has since been put aside untouched.
The Great Army defeated an attack on York by the two rivals for the Northumbrian throne, Osberht and Ælla, who had put aside their differences in the face of a common enemy.
García Moreno, putting aside both his project to place Ecuador under a French protectorate and his differences with General Flores, got together with the former dictator to put down the various local rebellions and force out the Peruvians.
Interrupted by the chief machinist requesting he celebrate the launch of 8½, Fellini put aside the letter and went on the set.
When the citizens see the meaningless battle, they put aside their differences, whether they are from the colonies or from Earth, and form what becomes the Earth Sphere Unified Nation.
* Creativity-relevant skills ( ability to concentrate on a problem for long periods of time, to abandon unproductive searches, and to temporarily put aside stubborn problems ).
The ability to put aside stubborn problems is referred to by Jex & Britt as productive forgetting.
Ethics aside, New South Wales could not afford the £ 1000 and only managed to travel to Melbourne after half the team ’ s travel cost of £ 181 was put up by Sydney barrister Richard Driver.
The theorem was put aside and forgotten until his death.
* Perhaps Spengler influenced Charles Lindbergh's view that Western nations should put aside their political differences and form an alliance against " foreign races " instead of fighting amongst themselves.
Each householder must put aside all the chametz he is selling into a box or cupboard, and the rabbi enters into a contract to sell all the chametz to a non-Jew ( who is not obligated to observe the commandments ) in exchange for a small down payment ( e. g. $ 1. 00 ), with the remainder due after Passover.
Sagasta demanded that they put their differences aside and both, with their respective groups, became part of the first autonomous government of Puerto Rico immediately before the War.
At the start of the war, the Athenians had prudently put aside some money and 100 ships that were to be used only as a last resort.
Robert II of France, who had been insisting on his right to appoint bishops, was ultimately forced to back down, and ultimately also to put aside his wife Bertha, by the rigorous enforcement of a sentence of excommunication on the kingdom.
Therefore, in order to properly grasp the nature of the wax, he should put aside the senses.
put and enough
A storm did take place that night, and fortunately enough, it included a cloudburst that helped put out the flames.
Thus, when the Russians sent up their first sputnik, American chagrin was human enough, and American determination to put American satellites into orbit was perfectly understandable.
As soon as they are large enough to move, I put mine 9 inches apart where they are to bloom.
In our own practice, to have the last `` intonaco '' plaster coat thick enough to match, and at the same time to avoid fine cracks in drying, we found that it had to be put on in two layers, letting the first set awhile before applying the second.
The batteries on the bugging device I had put on the car were still fresh enough to send out good strong signals.
Then this atom of calcium will swell to something like a great balloon a hundred yards across, a balloon big enough to put a football field inside.
`` It would make me feel a lot better, but the Woman's Exchange isn't taking baked goods any more and I can't leave the baby with Grandma because she isn't strong enough and the baby's too young to be put in a nursery ''.
In a 1958 letter to a friend in West Germany, Paternak wrote, " She was put in jail on my account, as the person considered by the secret police to be closest to me, and they hoped that by means of a grueling interrogation and threats they could extract enough evidence from her to put me on trial.
There was not enough money to put up more new buildings, and so the houses in the other streets are nearly all still standing.
Budget is always an issue with this type of theatre, however if the theatre teacher is dedicated enough to the performance, he or she can find all sorts of ways to put the production together with a reasonable budget.
Apparently, Arius and Eusebius were close enough and Eusebius powerful enough that Arius was able to put his theology down in writing.
The accident effectively put an end to Joseph's career as a cricketer, and his subsequent earnings as a shopkeeper were not enough to compensate for the loss of the primary source of family income.
Lippman put it this way: The public is not smart enough to understand complicated, political issues.
" I have said enough to put the character of Anglo-American civilization in its true light.
Someone with " bad kung fu " simply has not put enough time and effort into training, or seems to lack the motivation to do so.
By this time, the team felt it was established enough to put an " M " on its cap without having St. Paul fans think it stood for Minneapolis.
Had Prometheus not provoked Zeus's wrath ( 44 – 47 ), " you would easily do work enough in a day to supply you for a full year even without working ; soon would you put away your rudder over the smoke, and the fields worked by ox and sturdy mule would run to waste.
He organizes a campaign of murder in order to steal enough money to return to Earth to take revenge on the Cult Leader who put him there.
The chronicler Robert the Monk put this into the mouth of Urban II: ... this land which you inhabit, shut in on all sides by the seas and surrounded by the mountain peaks, is too narrow for your large population ; nor does it abound in wealth ; and it furnishes scarcely food enough for its cultivators.
They put up their own candidate ( Giulio Cesare Sacchetti ) but could not establish enough support for him and agreed to Pamphilj as an acceptable compromise, though he had served as legate to Spain.
While most specimens are found crushed, enough fossils exist to put together a detailed description of the animal.
In 1966 Chrysler sold enough of the 426 Hemis to make it available again, and they put it in their new Dodge Charger which had a low-drag rear window that was radically sloped.
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